The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-11-30
CONDENSED NEWS.


Wednesday, Nov. %.
Texas rangers have rid the Mexican
frontier of bandits.
The manager Of the Standard OIL com
pany was before the interstate commission
and explained the methods # the company
At meeting Of the Massachusetts, execu-
tive council, Warren T. Spading Was APP
pointed general superintendent of prisons.
The managers OF the Maine state fair
have decided to add "ehil1ren's' and an
"old peoples day to their program for
next year.
NJ Goanol conducted the performance Of
his new mass, loan Of Arc, IN the church
of St Eustache, Paris. There Was hril
liant gathering.
a meeting Of trunk line presidents IN
Commissioner Flnks Office, ratified = cut
in freight rates TO the seaboard, 70 meet
that Of the Grand Trunk.
Martin Van Buren, Hersom Of Boston, the
ex-detectiye, was sentenced to state prison
for five years the fun penalty for his
oifons, stealing diamonds.
Thursday. Nov. ~.
President Cleveland is to take riding les
sons.
T r. varick, surgeon and author, is
dead.
The Democratic majority in Virginia IS
1916.
Steamer Charles p Chot4au was burned
in the Yazoo river.
The jury found for the plaintiff in the
Lancaster bank case.
Tue fire in the Calumet and Hecla mine
is spreading 10 shaft No ..
A Denver banker authorizes Mrs Belya
Lockwood to get him a wife
Edward Connors was stabbed by James
Dolan at the North End, Boston.
Thirty pounds OF dynamite was found in
the lodgings OF Calen in London,
Wages are likely to be cut down il the
price OF steel rails does not improve.
Johnny Spellman, tn. jockey, died In st,
Vincent S hospital in New York city.
Xenophon Baltazzi has been appointed
consul general Of Turkey in New York.
Partial returns show small majority in
favor OF the division of Dakota territory,
Northern Pacific third mortgage bonds
to the amount of =, 0O0, 900 have been
sold
Bishop Jansseni Of Natchez is probably
TO be the new archbishop OF New Or
leans
The sale Of newspapers containing nude
art sketches was suppressed in Provi
dence.
Friday. Nov. rs.
Gerster was rendered rousing reception
at New York.
PROFESSIONS of maskers formed novel
observance OF Thanksgiving day in New
York
Eugene Carter won first prize in the
cushion carom handicap tournament at
Chicago.
White. Clarkson & Co., wholesale lumber
dealers, New Haven, are reported financially
embarrassed
The pork packing establishment Of the
Des Mones Packing company was burned
Loss 100000.
Democrats and Republicans are both
working to have the national conventions
held in Chicago.
The peace arbitration delegates who ar
rived at Queenstown spoke highly of their
reception in America.
The postmaster general in his annual re-
port will probably make no allusion to the
subject of postal telegraphv.
Manager Stanton Of the Metropolitan
Opera company says the company may be
heard in Boston, providing guarantee Of
$l7, 900 per week is made.
The Boston health officers have receEed
notice from New York that several passen-
gers from cholera infested ship were on
their way to Boston. They will be looked
after en- their arrival
The Belfast News says that Mr.. Balfour
will be the government leader in the house
of commons at the next session, and that
Ashmead Bartlett will succeed him as
chief secretary for Ireland.
The receivers OF the Philadelphia & Read
ing, the New Jersey Central, and the
Buffalo New York & Philadelphia railroad
companies, and the Philadelphia & Reading
Coal q Iron company have been dis
charged
Joseph Jahoda, n Bohemian cigarmaker
with family, killed himself at New York
because he had been boycotted by the CT
garmakers union and was unable to get
work. His family were on the point Of
starvation.